Newport Dinner Train
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Newport Dinner Train | |
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Locale | Rhode Island |
Dates of operation | 1997 – present |
Track gauge | 4 ft 8½ in (1435 mm) (standard gauge) |
Headquarters | Newport |
The Newport Dinner Train or Old Colony and Newport Railway is a heritage railway in Rhode Island. The line runs from Newport to Portsmouth where the line comes to an end just before the Tiverton Drawbridge. The line currently operates a tourist train with old wooden coaches, and a dinner train with streamlined rail cars. In 2007, the dinner train purchased two former Wilton Scenic Railroad Budd RDCs for use on the new "Islander Touring Train," which will also be run as a regularly scheduled passenger train between Newport and Portsmouth.